Magistrate Judge Says Challenges To ICC Award Fail, Recommends Confirmation

Mealey's (November 13, 2018, 12:39 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal magistrate judge on Nov. 8 recommended that a petition to vacate an international arbitral award be denied and that a cross-petition to confirm the award be granted, holding that a mobile phone software maker failed to establish a governing law that was applicable in relation to its averse inference claim and that it failed to show that the tribunal manifestly disregarded the law (NDrive, Navigation Systems S.A. v. LG Electronics Inc., No. 18-CV-5514, S.D. N.Y., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 192388)....